Camille Paglia Quotes
Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that have to be seen to be believed.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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The federal government has not been effective enough monitoring and surveilling bad guys.
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The most important tool of my trade was a mirror.
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I don't seek out love or relationships, just because my schedule is crazy.
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There was a time in my life when one aspect of my lifestyle called for watching a lot of television.
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I've been a storyteller all my life. When I was in high school, I used to amuse myself by driving through the woods at night and see how long it would be before I scared the pants off my friends - and if I could do it before I scared myself.
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There is nothing worse than when actors come to a set - and it happens a lot with big stars - and they are too aware of where the camera is. They are the show. And that becomes apparent and it affects the production. I am like 'You should not know where the camera is - you should act, and I will do the rest.'
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The only way you're going to have a good relationship with anyone is to have a good relationship with yourself.
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I cannot say why I wanted to paint. The only answer is in the pictures themselves.
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A robot may not injure humanity, or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
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Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.
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Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.
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I don't know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me.
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Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.
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A family member of mine was diagnosed with lymphoma, and the treatment they're getting wouldn't exist if it weren't for the work that Team in Training does. I want to support them.
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My total year's income from working as hard as I possibly could from writing went from like $30 one year to about $70 the next year. And it made me realize that maybe you couldn't really pay the rent that way.
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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
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Why don't you start believing that no matter what you have or haven't done, that your best days are still out in front of you.
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I always tell people there's nothing greater than a crisis to create a breakthrough. Because that's when we breakthrough usually - most people don't proactively breakthrough - they breakthrough because they have to. And the beauty of crisis is it doesn't feel beautiful, is it melts us down. And when you're melted down you can recast your life in a new way.
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I long to play a judge. I long to play a lesbian woman. I long to play a councilman, someone with some chutzpah.
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Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that have to be seen to be believed.
